Cambria Hebert

“How do you do it?” (…)

“Do what?” he asked. (…)

“How do you look at me like… like I’m everything?”

(…) “Because you are.”

“Romeo.” I sighed.

“Rimmel,” he replied. “Don’t forget.”
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(…)

“Don’t forget this moment. Don’t forget the absolute truth in the way you feel right now. I love you and I’m not going to stop.”

Our friendship was better because of our love. Our love was better because it blossomed out of friendship.

Fourteen - Trent

Don’t call me that.” She looked down.

I tipped her face back up. “What?”

“Baby.”

Shit. I called her baby?

“Why not?” I asked. I was supposed to tell her she’d been hearing things. That grief was making her cuckoo.

“Because I like it.”

Kissing him was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Meeting something so big it made you feel small. It was like standing beneath a galaxy or being the red “you are here” dot on a map of the world.

Chapter Nineteen - Drew

“You’re an asshole!” I yelled and then collapsed into his arms to cry some more.

“I know.” He agreed and held me close. “But I’m an asshole who loves you.”

Guys like him were dangerous. I knew it firsthand. They took what they wanted, wrecked your insides, and walked away while you stood in the center of chaos without anyone to pull you back.